The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-14
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

and an Arrest Follows - AK and
Knife Used in Row in Berrien
County.
GEORGIA.
Two Mormon ders have made their APP
pearance in Warren county.
The fire record for twenty years past
shows that there have been fewer losses in
Newman than any town of equal size in the
State, for the period mentioned.
II is estimated that nearly Sl,000,000 of
life insurance is carried by the people OF
Coweta county. Three-fourths of this
amount is carried in Newman, the largest
single policy being for $4,000.
The committee appointed by the last
Grand Jury of Fayette county to examine
the tax books and report all defaulters, held
a series of meetings last week. They found
about 4, 800 acres of land not given in at all,
and something over 200 polls.
More than fifty lots of land in Towns,
Union, Dawson, Lumpkin, Fannin, Chat
tooga. Cherokee Barlow, Polk, Paulding,
Floyd and Milton counties are now for sale.
These are all mineral lands, and contain
gold, copper, iron and other valuable ores.
Last Sunday a difficulty occurred near
James Luke's at Flat Greek, Berrien
County. between Messrs. James and Tom
Luke, in which the former was cut under
the left shoulder and the latter was knocked
ON the forehead with an AK. Mr.. Luke's
coat was cut in eleven places. Neither
party is supposed to be dangerously hurt.
Near Kinnston, Tuesday night, while Tram
Branson, son of Judge John c. Branson, was
riding home, he was attacked by negro
man. The negro grabbed the reins and de
manded his money and horse, or he would
kill him. All this time Tram was working
to get his knife which he did, and, quickly
opening it, cut the Negroes hand that
held the bride, making him loose it and
before the negro could recover himself
Tram was out of sight Tram is only a lad
of sixteen summers, and small to his age,
and his experience with a desperate scared
him up pretty badly He lives a mile and a
half from town and now goes home before
shutdown.
Two young Nashville gentlemen went
buggy riding last Sunday. They may have
intended visiting their sweethearts. A
pony, late of Texas, furnished the motive
power. The young gentlemen were only
partially acquainted with the pony-ln fact
they were hardly on speaking terms with
him. After while the pony had occasion
to resent some injury done his person, SO to
speak, with a whip, and the more he re-
scented it the bigger the injury seemed to
him to grow, until finally he ''pawded" the
buggy into a wreck with his hind feet.
When this was accomplished the pony,
minus harness, stood off and gazed at the
young men with a look which seemed to
say: 'Hit me again if you want to have
some more fun
The Brunswick Adrertiser-AppedI re
ports a somewhat peculiar case that was
tried during the past week in Wayne Supe-
rior Court. A short time since negro was
discovered attempting to open a car in
freight train on the Savannah, Florida and
Western railway at Scriven, in Wayne
county. When the train started he climbed
on board, and at each stop continued his
work of trying to force an entry. At Pat
terson, in Pierce county, he was arrested,
and when tried was cleared. He was imme-
diately re-arrested on a warrant from
Wayne county, and taken to Jesup, where
he was last week tried, convicted and sen
fenced to the penitentiary for that portion
of his crime committed in that county.
At Macon Friday the grand jury found
nine true bills against Thomas Voolfolk for
the murder of the Voolfolk family on Aug.
- last. A reporter interviewed Voolfolk
and informed him of the fact that the bills
had been found. Ibid you know that bills
had been found, Tomh "No, | did mott
well, there were nine of them found-an
Indictment for murder in each CASE We'll,
it is no more than l expected" said Tom,
and he turned away in the most nonchalant
him speedy trial. Col. John C. Ruther
ford has formally accepted the place of
counsel for his defense. and the case bids
fair to be most stubbornly contested 1t
will come up for trial as soon as the Grim
inal docket is opened, probably this month
Alapaha Star: Sparks is the name of
new town about one mile south of Alton,
IN this county, on the Georgia Southern ana
Florida railroad 1t is located TWENTY-FIVE
miles So1th of Triton tuuaiva n,iloc 1,raSf Of
Nashville, twenty-seven miles northwest of
Naldosta and twenty-one miles southwest of
Alapaha. The country tributary to Sparks
is thickly settled, the land is fertile and the
farmers for the most part are in good cir
cumstances. Perhaps it would be proper
to state here that SPARKS is as yet in
an embryo state-that is, it. has but
recently been laid off into business and resi-
dence lots, about fifty of which have been
sold. Three store-houses have been erected
and the finishing touches are being put on
them. A number of intendent settlers have
hauled part of the building material on
their lots, and will in a short time begin
erecting store-houses and residences.
AT Quitman, on Saturday morning last,
when Sheriff Mcneil went to Jail to feed the
prisoners, he was accosted by colored
gentleman who said he would like to see the
inside of that edifice. The Sheriff very DO
litely invited him in and as he did so he was
comparing a description received that
morning from Monticello asking him
to look out for a party resembling
the gentleman who had just asked
to be allowed to inspect the premises.
The description suited and as soon as the
negro walked into the cage the Sheriff shot
the bolt and there he was. Sheriff Bird
came up on the next train and identified the
negro as the one wanted. He belonged TO
gang that had recently committed num-
Der of robberies in jefferson county His
object in wanting to go into the Jail here
was to see if any of his comrades had been
captured and Gagged in this county.
A handsome, neatly dressed young man,
giving the name of D. w. Taylor. New
York, is under arrest at Columbus. He
was arrested on the following telegram
from Cincinnati: "a man giving the name
of Gardner is wanted here. He is young
man, feet or Q inches in height, slender
build brown or black moustache, not heavy,
and has agreeable manners. He wore a
light overcoat and black stiff hat. Arrest
if found, and wire me. PHIL DEIrsCH,
Supt. of Police" The description fitted ex-
actly There can be no doubt as to the
identity of the man. He is slick one,
and has worked several States, be-
ginning at Pennsylvania and going
as far West as California From
there he went to Missouri He was in